Building Winning Connections for Start-Ups in Francophone Africa

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqxnkKNE4RhjHiQUNa5VDTIjwtTaaazb9LglgbrRA1_TfiyCVuktqDXxTs3XgVYfDtpQPihm_vujdI1RZimHUB9jsMW84Oy7cV63chsj2zuMPmXwyfpbN-VN5xQcbo7dxghTJtDD70n67/s283/saguba.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqxnkKNE4RhjHiQUNa5VDTIjwtTaaazb9LglgbrRA1_TfiyCVuktqDXxTs3XgVYfDtpQPihm_vujdI1RZimHUB9jsMW84Oy7cV63chsj2zuMPmXwyfpbN-VN5xQcbo7dxghTJtDD70n67/s0/saguba.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.Suguba.org">Suguba </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">in partnership with Mercy Corps and the French Development Agency (AFD) is organizing its second investment readiness program in French-speaking West Africa to support the most promising start-ups in the digital sector. The eight (8) Francophone West African start-ups selected for the cohort of this program are the following:</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv3849633192MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.jayseddo.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><strong>Bio Agripol</strong></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">(</span><a href="https://www.jayseddo.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">https://www.Jayseddo.com/</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">), a Senegalese start-up that provides participatory financing to individuals serving the agricultural value chain.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mousso.africa/home/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Mousso</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="http://mousso.africa/home/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">http://Mousso.africa/home/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), a Senegalese start-up that provides the necessary supplies via a mobile platform and allows a deferred payment with 0% interest.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.keiwa.app/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Dothan</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://www.keiwa.app/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.Keiwa.app/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), an Ivorian start-up company whose mission is to develop a financial management and support tool for African VSE/SMEs called KEIWA.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Eneza</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://EnezaEducation.com/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), an Ivorian EDTECH that provides educational content with the main objective of overcoming the obstacles related to access to quality education through digital technology in Côte d'Ivoire and the West African sub-region.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://cinetpay.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>CinetPay</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://cinetpay.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://CinetPay.com/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), an Ivorian fintech created in 2016, develops digital solutions for payment and money transfer, via mobile money, bank cards (Visa, Mastercard) and electronic wallets.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.carfics.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Carfics</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://www.carfics.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.Carfics.com/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), a French technology startup based in Montpellier and focused on Africa, helps companies to improve the operational and therefore economic performance of their strategic assets, particularly in the field of transport.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.shopmeaway.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Shop Me Away</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://www.shopmeaway.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.Shopmeaway.com/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), a Senegalese start-up, the new Airbnb of parcels. The Shopmeaway platform provides you with an address in the country you want to receive your packages and re-ship them to your home at a lower cost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.kamtar-ci.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Kamtar</strong></a><span style="color: #1d2228;"> (</span><a href="https://www.kamtar-ci.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://www.Kamtar-ci.com/</a><span style="color: #1d2228;">), an Ivorian start-up operates in the transport sector while collecting and delivering your parcels where you want. They are involved in international convoys to Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Guinea, Mali and Burkina.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">L'Afrique Excelle, the Francophone adaptation of the World Bank XL Africa technology accelerator, was Suguba's first acceleration program. The program, which ended in 2019, aimed to connect francophone startups on the continent with mentors and investors. Afrique Excelle had enabled the first 10 French-speaking sub-Saharan African startups to raise funds for a total of about $10 million, making it a total success.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The entrepreneurs selected for Afrikhaliss will be trained and mentored by international and local experts in a tailor-made program to increase their brand visibility and give them access to potential partners and investors. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Through its collaboration with leading investors, particularly in French-speaking Africa, Afrikhaliss will help the selected start-ups attract capital.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Flagship activities include two one-week residential training sessions in Dakar, Senegal, and another in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop their professional network and learn from mentors, peers, and local and international partners. The residential training in Dakar will conclude with a Pitch at the second edition of the Francophone Africa Investment Summit where entrepreneurs will present their start-ups to a large audience of new technology experts, investors, large companies, experts and media.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The program partners are the main investment funds and business angels active in Francophone Africa. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For more information on the program or if you wish to become a partner of this initiative, please contact us at the following address: <a href="mailto:contact@suguba.org" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:contact@suguba.org">contact@suguba.org</a>. </div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv3849633192MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Suguba.</span></span></i></p></div>

Building Winning Connections for Start-Ups in Francophone Africa

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Zanzibar's urban residents have improved access to water and sanitation

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15RXJnkeYDTP6xJQ0Dbhkl539YKggDJlXuA9iu2BF0u5CXaFAeRggdpMZMNKqsiUt7-1IwE49OSQTubevy3ZUelyo75Jw7KwC-AeGkbP5bvD9wgugC-XswMUZ1WH-0rWe0F3GA1ktDK7L/s250/africa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="68" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi15RXJnkeYDTP6xJQ0Dbhkl539YKggDJlXuA9iu2BF0u5CXaFAeRggdpMZMNKqsiUt7-1IwE49OSQTubevy3ZUelyo75Jw7KwC-AeGkbP5bvD9wgugC-XswMUZ1WH-0rWe0F3GA1ktDK7L/s0/africa.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Zanzibar Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project, implemented between 2012 and 2018 in Tanzania, has provided water and sanitation services to around 287,000 people, according to a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/tanzania-zanzibar-urban-water-supply-and-sanitation-project-project-completion-report" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">report</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(</span><a href="https://bit.ly/33Bqsbr" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/33Bqsbr</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">) by the African <a href="www.AfDB.org">Development</a> Bank</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> published on September 2, 2020.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv7566635141MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Financed by a Bank loan in the amount of $19 million, the project was rolled out in Saateni and Welezo, two urban areas in the Zanzibar archipelago.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The report notes that progress towards achieving the project’s initial goals was largely satisfactory. In fact, 71 percent of the people in the Saateni and Welezo regions now benefit from water supply services, 12 elementary schools have gained access to improved sanitation facilities, and 5,000 primary school students have been sensitized on hygiene and sanitation.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Similarly, 76 percent of the 30 targeted non-functional boreholes have been rehabilitated and new submersible pumps have been installed, six new wells have been drilled and new submersible pumps have been installed. A total of 56,782 m³/day of water is produced, representing 154 percent of the targeted production quantity of 36,755 m³/day," according to the project completion report.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The document also highlights the rehabilitation and extension of more than 68 kilometres of water supply and distribution mains, the installation of more than 15 meters, the acquisition of nearly 4,000 household water meters, and the rehabilitation and construction of about 454 sanitation and hygiene facilities in elementary schools, adapted to children and people with disabilities.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition, 30 school sanitation and hygiene centres were created. Nine training sessions were held for 117 teachers, 72 percent of whom were women.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"The project has made remarkable progress and has ultimately improved the lives of the targeted beneficiaries," the report continues.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"The rate of access to sanitation facilities in schools rose from 7 percent in 2012 to 142 percent in 2020. In addition, 34,353 primary school students have been taught about sanitation and hygiene thanks to the training offered. In accordance with the project design, the students are relaying these messages to their communities, which has had a positive impact on sanitation and hygiene in those communities."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The report concludes by pointing out that 227 direct jobs, including 80 skilled jobs, were created during the construction of the water and sanitation facilities and following the commissioning of a water supply system in Zanzibar.</div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv7566635141MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Development Bank Group (AfDB).</span></span></i></p></div>

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Connecting people with finance

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36uQNPgXSUVD8FKYPOtF_heHwBbxIH0MRxnDrUvuhyx61zeApb89DXTRbSzOuSs2od0OOnXAwCYRLyZNHjcNTIG8lxLtMNcDUpNYnYj1lWb22Z3qh4oF4bV1WEAVK4iFx2PIDa4e0BVDZ/s250/huw.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36uQNPgXSUVD8FKYPOtF_heHwBbxIH0MRxnDrUvuhyx61zeApb89DXTRbSzOuSs2od0OOnXAwCYRLyZNHjcNTIG8lxLtMNcDUpNYnYj1lWb22Z3qh4oF4bV1WEAVK4iFx2PIDa4e0BVDZ/s0/huw.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">By Vincent Chen</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv4431188808MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In the banking industry, the stable running of IT systems is imperative. This is what drove the industry to begin IT construction relatively early and what continues to drive it to make significant investments each and every year.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the IT architecture of the banking industry - particularly the core system - has stood still for decades. This year in particular, it has become clear that banks need to change their architecture.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mobile internet technologies - such as 4G and 5G - and intelligent terminals are now popular. Open source technologies based on cloud computing are developing rapidly, and the banking habits of customers are changing fast. In this environment, traditional bank services - from deposits and loans to remittances - are quickly evolving to include payment and investment services.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, FinTechs have used new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cloud and big data to quickly gain a large number of customers, particularly Millennials, with enhanced business competitiveness.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In China, alongside FinTech companies, internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent already occupy a majority of customers’ portals through their own business ecosystems, including almost all payment scenarios. These enterprises also encroach on traditional financial service scenarios, posing a huge threat to traditional banks.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Digital banking trend gains momentum</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For banks, as markets continue to become increasingly open, financial services are disintermediating, with traditional interest margins shrinking. An increasing number of newcomers to the market have also exacerbated the decline of intermediate businesses. In these circumstances, traditional banks must not become complacent. Instead, they must digitally transform.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">To implement digital transformation, traditional banks require new technologies to reshape businesses and upgrade core systems, reduce operation costs, improve risk control capabilities, simplify methods to acquire customers, and optimise the customer experience, as well as enter the long-tail market, which has yet to be penetrated.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, through service transformation and the upgrade of core service systems, the lifecycle of financial products is significantly shortened, with faster service innovation required. With such transformation, banks can also integrate into - or build - more open banking ecosystems, transforming into a Banking-as-a-Service platform that connects various fields, including government, tourism, healthcare and transportation. This enables banking services to be accessed anytime, anywhere, creating new digital banks.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s not the case that traditional banks are simply trying to transform into digital banks; they’re looking to build entirely new digital banks instead. FinTech companies have identified huge potential in this area of the banking market, and their aim is essentially to become technology giants with a banking license.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The construction of digital banks needs a suitable market environment, which should feature adequate network and smartphone coverage, low loan coverage for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - which increases the need for digital banking platforms - and FinTech with specific functions.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In terms of services, the process requires scenario-based products, fast market entry, simpler interactions with customers, cooperation in the ecosystem, always-online services — and strong connectivity. In terms of technology, digital banks require high performance, high scalability and high availability. They also need open source technologies, distributed architecture, a micro-service design, and a continuous integration and continuous delivery model.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike traditional systems, a new-look digital core banking system must be constructed using new technologies, with support for digital banking services. There are various ways to construct this new digital core in different countries and regions, and for different banks at different stages, but dual-mode architecture is the most common strategy.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The mainstream architecture of bank digitisation</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The core systems that banks have developed over several years are supported by traditional, stable IT architecture and can’t simply be disregarded or rebuilt within a short period of time. However, banks do need new architecture to support applications and services such as mobile payments, micro-finance and e-commerce in open banking environments.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Such applications can’t simply be built and tacked onto the core, stable systems of traditional banks, which are designed for deposit, loan, and remittance services. Instead, most of the new services are cloud-native applications, developed based on new technologies that are open and agile. A dual-mode architecture therefore consists of two types of architecture: stable and agile.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This new type of agile architecture is generally open, distributed, or cloud-based. Chinese financial institutions have been progressing relatively fast over the last 10 years, not only as a result of the natural evolution of their own business development, but also in the face of competition from domestic internet companies. China is also arguably the most developed e-commerce market in the world. During annual shopping events, banks - whether traditional or more innovative - need to be able to process massive amounts of online transactions in a very short timeframe. This has driven banks to update their entire technical architecture, to support fast and elastic resource deployment, as well as quick iteration of applications.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Changes in expectations regarding user experience are also driving traditional banks to quickly develop new applications, such as marketing applications (for flash sales and similar) and non-traditional financial service applications (for life and e-commerce services), with the aim of attracting new, younger customers.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In this context, traditional banks need to quickly build a new digital core based on open and distributed technologies, to better support the rapid development of next generation applications, improve the customer experience and reduce the overall IT operations and maintenance cost per account. This new digital core must also support the construction of a next generation data platform, to enable banks to quickly reconstruct the data plane - with big data, data lakes and data factories - as well as support the rapid development and deployment of innovative banking services.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, banks still need to maintain the stability of their traditional core, to continue to provide traditional banking services, such as processing savings and general ledgers. As these services have been running stably on traditional platforms for years, any benefits or incentives for changing these services aren’t particularly significant. So, although many banks are migrating service applications from the traditional core to a new digital core, using dual-mode architecture will continue to be the mainstream approach for many years to come.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei helps customers build a new digital core</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">IT architecture is the technical foundation that supports the core banking system. For the transformation of bank IT architecture, Huawei usually explores - and combines - two directions: open and distributed modes. In a distributed mode, the system can be expanded quickly and horizontally, supporting large and non-linear transactions, and this is closely related to the entire architecture design. Traditional bank architecture is centralised and difficult to expand horizontally. However, x86based architecture and various open distributed technologies - including the MySQL database and Hadoop - are easy to expand horizontally. For example, WeBank’s Extensible Markup Language (XML) architecture.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">During open distributed architecture trials, many technical problems faced by the industry have been successfully resolved. Multiple large-scale practices have been implemented as a result. WeBank has been a good example of this. Other banks, such as China Minsheng Bank and MYbank, have followed suit, building new open banking system architecture based on open distributed technology. Even though the entire industry will maintain a traditional architecture (or core) for the foreseeable future, the transformation to new architecture is a trend that has now become irreversible.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Since 2019, Huawei has worked in China with the banking service provider Forms Syntron to develop a solution called Fincube. This helps banks build a distributed banking digital core system that converges Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) layers. Huawei also provides the IaaS infrastructure architecture and distributed storage technology based on HUAWEI CLOUD, while the partner provides fully distributed PaaS technologies and modular digital banking systems that can flexibly adapt to various service development scenarios.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Since it was launched, this solution was quickly put into commercial use by a leading bank in Thailand. The solution increases system processing capability from hundreds of transactions per second to thousands per second.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has also worked closely with Chinese provider of bank software MuRong Technology to help a major Kenyan bank quickly build a new digital core system, helping it implement its inclusive financial strategy to quickly obtain customers and issue small- and micro-loans in five East African countries. Compared with traditional systems, the bank’s new digital core significantly improves transaction capacity and performance, providing intelligent data service functions such as real-time risk control through the introduction of a Huawei big data processing platform and distributed database technologies.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As a global ICT solutions provider, Huawei aims to bring the solutions and best practices applied in the Chinese banking industry to more bank customers outside China. Indeed, the biggest value that Huawei can contribute to the global financial industry is its ability to replicate successful practices in China on a global scale, empowering the digital transformation and success of global financial customers.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For more information about Huawei’s intelligent finance solutions, please visit: <a href="https://bit.ly/36xSJBB" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/36xSJBB</a>.</div></span></span><p></p><p class="yiv4431188808MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Huawei Enterprise.</span></span></i></p>

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German Investors Announce Mozambique Investment Mission Targeting

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <em style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Germany Africa Business Forum leads delegation to explore investment opportunities in Mozambique in March 2021; GABF congratulates H.E. Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique for his selection as Africa Oil & Power’s (<a href="http://www.africaoilandpower.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: normal;">www.AfricaOilandPower.com</span></a>) “Person of the Year” for 2020; German businesses and investors should contact <a href="http://www.germanyafrica.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: normal;">www.GermanyAfrica.com</span></a>.</em></span></p><p class="yiv2964096212MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Germany’s economic commitment to Mozambique will further be strengthened as the Germany Africa Business Forum (“GABF”) embarks on a three-day trade mission to encourage, promote, and facilitate trade and investment between German businesses and a growing Mozambican economy.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">German investors will visit Mozambique during the Mozambique Gas & Power (MGP) 2021 Conference & Exhibition taking place on March 8-9, 2021, an incredible opportunity organised by Africa Oil & Power (AOP) in partnership with Mozambique’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) and the Government of Mozambique.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The GABF further congratulates H.E. Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique for his selection as Africa “Person of the Year” for 2020. “Thanks to the leadership of His Excellency President Nyusi, Mozambique is on the verge of becoming an international player in the global energy market, and the GABF calls on German investment and technology to play a part in this transformation”, stated Sebastian Wagner, Executive Chair of the GABF.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The investor mission provides German investors an opportunity to engage with key Mozambican businesses and political stakeholders. The goal of the investment roadshow is to deepen German-Mozambican relationships in light of Mozambique’s recent discovery of substantial natural gas fields, largely considered a game-changer for the country and its people. Natural gas in its liquefied form (LNG) is a clean and safe fuel that is growing in global significance, as world energy demand increases in a lower-carbon context.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The German energy sector continues to be among the most innovative sectors of the European economy. German businesses understand that they need to play a strong and competitive role in Africa to ensure a cleaner and stronger Germany.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Mozambique is a great opportunity for German businesses to invest in gas monetization projects, petrochemicals, power projects, industrialization and immediate diversification of the economy that leads to jobs for the people of Mozambique and Germans alike”, added Wagner.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mozambique offers German companies many untapped opportunities to adapt and create new business models that are inclusive of and responsive to the tremendous opportunities and potential that exists in Mozambique.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The platform, created by the government of H.E. Filipe Nyusi and the Africa Oil and Power team to bring investment into Mozambique, is a step in the right direction. The GABF will be hosting the Germany-Mozambique roundtable and related discussions during the event, and will announce several investment agreements.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mozambique is going to play a strong role in driving energy security and global peace, and will empower young people. When Germany exports goods and services to Mozambique or invests in its booming LNG markets, Germany must see this as a long-term engagement with Mozambique.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Germany has had strong relations with Mozambique since independence. Many Mozambicans studied and lived in Germany, and Germany has provided wide-ranging support to support peace and reconciliation in Mozambique. Economic empowerment has to be our next goal, and now is the time,” concluded Wagner.</div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv2964096212MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Oil & Power Conference.</span></span></i></p></div>

German Investors Announce Mozambique Investment Mission Targeting

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Wanawake nchini wameshauriwa kuwachagua viongozi wenye kuwaletea maslahi katika masuala yao yanayowahusu ili kufikia malengo wanayoyakusudiwa. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Mwenyekiti wa Vikundi vya kuweka na kukopa pamoja na ujasiamali zanzibar  Siti Abass Ali ameleza hayo wakati akizungumza na vikundi vya Kinamama vya ujasiriamali katika nyakati tofauti huko Mwera batini  pamoja na Mtoni ikiwa ni muendelezo wa kuwakumbusha wanawake juu ya wajibu wao wa kuwachagua viongozi bora.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Amesema kitendo cha kuwapa dhamana ya utumishi  Wazalendo wenye muono wa kusimamia mambo ya msingi ya maendeleo ndio njia pekee itakayosaidia kupatikana kwa ufumbuzi  wa kusuluhisha matatizo mbali mbali  yanayowakabili. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Bibi Siti alieleza kuwa  ni vyema kwa wanavikundi hao kuweka mkazo zaidi kwa kuwaangalia viongozi wenye kuweka kipaumbele  juu ya masuala ya wanawake ikiwemo kuwawezesha kiuchumi, kusimamia suala la amani na utulivu pamoja na kupiga vita vitendo vya udhalilishaji wa kijinsia. </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Aliwaomba akina Mama hao kuzingatia suala zima la  kuwadhibiti watoto na vijana  kwa lengo la kutokubali  kutumiwa na wanasiasa wakiofilisika kisera katika kuwaingiza kwenye vurugu za kuchafua Amani ya Nchi.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Wakichangia kikao hicho wanawake hao kutoka vikundu mbali mbali  wamemuomba Rais atakayepata ridha ya Wananchi walio wengi ajitahidi  kuyapatia ufumbuzi matatizo mbali mbali yanayowazunguuka Wananchi katika maeneo yao.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Wamesema miongoni mwa tatizo sugu linaowakabili ni pamoja na changamoto ya upatikanaji wa maji safi na salama hasa katika kipindi hiki ambapo katika shehia ya Kibweni na Mwanyanya kumekuwa na ujenzi wa miundombinu ya barabara.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Aidha wananchi hao wameiomba mamlaka ya maji Zanzibar {ZAWA} Kuipatia ufumbuzi changamoto hiyo iliyochukuwa muda mrefu huku wananchi wakiendelea kuteseka kwa kukosa huduma hiyo muhimu katika ustawi wao.</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Kassim Salum Abdi</span></span></p><p class="yiv3716920397MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

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US – Africa Collaboration One of Key Talking Points

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <em style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The participation of </em><strong style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>US Department of Energy’s Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy</i></strong><em style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> and the </em><strong style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>US Development Finance Corporation’s Chief Development Officer</i></strong><em style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> in AOW Virtual highlights the importance that the United States places on fostering relationships with the continent.</em></span></p><p class="yiv2436798188MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When the US government launched its Prosper Africa initiative in December 2018, it did so with a vision to open markets for American businesses, grow Africa’s middle class and promote youth employment opportunities. Securing the continent’s energy future – either with its own resources or imported ones – and facilitating electrification for those Africans not yet connected to the grid have been crucial to the initiative since its inception.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Notably, the US Export-Import Bank recently approved a direct loan of up to $5 billion to support the development and construction of an integrated LNG project in northern Mozambique, demonstrating American appetite for developing natural gas as a key “bridging fuel”.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The question of what will power Africa’s energy transition will be top of the agenda at AOW Virtual, as the online conference hosts the “The Energy Debate: Natural Gas Vs Renewables” on October 7^th (16:30 GMT+1). Among the eight participant – who hail from organisations including EDF, BP and Nigeria LNG – will be <strong>US Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy</strong>, Steven Winberg and the <strong>US Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) Chief Development Officer</strong>, Andrew M. Herscowitz.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Both participants have a wealth of experience to offer. Preceding his current role, Herscowitz was Coordinator of the US Government’s Power Africa program, where he grew the initiative to become the world’s largest partnership for development, with 170 partners and $56 billion in commitments. Winberg meanwhile has built extensive experience in numerous energy technologies during his 39 years in the industry, including advanced fossil energy combustion, coal-to-liquids, fluidized bed combustion, emulsified fuels, fuel cells, alternative fuel vehicles, and carbon utilisation.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">What position are they likely to adopt in the debate? According to Assistant Secretary Winberg, it is a mistake to view fossil energy and natural gas as opposing forces. He recently commented, “Africa is home to immense unconventional gas reserves, and they also have abundant renewable resources. It’s not about using one or the other; it’s about using both to expand energy opportunity and security across the continent. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with our African partners to develop and use resources across the energy spectrum”. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Herscowitz too is likely to emphasise the importance of driving a sustainable energy mix, telling AOW Virtual organisers that “ultimately, what we must do is help Africans take advantage of their own resources using as many technologies as possible.” In the same conversation, he mentioned the importance of ensuring flexibility for the use of resources, citing floating storage and regasification units as projects for which the DFC may be interested in providing support.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The “The Energy Debate: Natural Gas Vs Renewables” is free to attend; audience members will be offered ample opportunity for Q&A. <a href="https://www.africa-oilweek.com/Page/aow-virtual-attend-day-1-wisent" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Sign-up here</strong></a> (<a href="https://bit.ly/2SuaNEp" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2SuaNEp</a>).</div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv2436798188MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Oil Week.</span></span></i></p></div>

US – Africa Collaboration One of Key Talking Points

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Equatorial Guinea and Russia Break Ground

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Last week marked an important step in the energy cooperation between Equatorial Guinea and Russia, as the first team of Russia’s state-owned joint stock company Rosgeo arrived in Equatorial Guinea to kick off a historic geological mapping project.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6250017199MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The initiative has been in the making for some time, and follows the signing of Memorandum of Understanding during the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019 between Rosgeo and the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons (MMH). It was followed by the signing of two firm services contracts in May 2020 with JSC Zarubezhgeologia and JSC Yuzhmorgeologia, internationally operating subsidiaries of Rosgeo, for the initial phase of seismic acquisition in transit zone and state geological mapping in the Rio Muni area in mainland Equatorial Guinea.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As a result, JSC Zarubezhgeologia will be performing scouting works for state geological mapping, and JSC Yuzhmorgeologia will be performing scouting works for complex seismic acquisition in the transit zone of Rio Muni. The activities are notably aimed at analyzing landscape conditions for geological surveying and prospecting, determining the scope of mapping drilling, researching the possibility of mineralogical sampling of channel deposits, analyzing technical conditions for the arrangement of geological camp in Rio Muni, and other scouting necessary to prepare for next phases of exploration works. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Equally important, the program marks the re-entry of Rosgeo into Equatorial Guinea following successful operations of its subsidiary JSC Zarubezhgeologia back in the 1970s. when its activities formed the basis for Equatorial Guinea’s geological exploration industry.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“This is a historic momen for Equatorial Guinea as we welcome once again long-standing partners of our country to explore onshore Río Muni. We expect this region of Equatorial Guinea to become a new natural resources hub both for onshore oil & gas operations but also for mining and minerals. Upcoming exploration activities will provide the foundation for this next phase of growth in our industry, and having Rosgeo on the ground gives us confidence and faith for a successful exploration campaign,” declared H.E. Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Rio Muni area is believed to be one of the most promising exploration frontiers in Equatorial Guinea, which could turn the country once again into a hotspot for natural resources exploration. Increased exploration is expected not only to help in sustaining and increasing domestic output of oil and gas, but also in proving additional reserves in key minerals to help Equatorial Guinea further diversify its economy.</div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv6250017199MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.</span></span></i></p></div>

Equatorial Guinea and Russia Break Ground

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Waumini waendelea kuliombea Taifa

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV7PlZH5xvjmlGRw0ryXO9zr924aPMFpuup5lFROPoX8Nn5WIggBuZ0ev6Ly_gIvR51S1vb6dTba6wuRzbD44LZwT8MoN9gfFZmuFbwkg7B5UiqSTDqOEQPzZRre2ctc7OC_Ig1o5sO-gm/s2000/311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV7PlZH5xvjmlGRw0ryXO9zr924aPMFpuup5lFROPoX8Nn5WIggBuZ0ev6Ly_gIvR51S1vb6dTba6wuRzbD44LZwT8MoN9gfFZmuFbwkg7B5UiqSTDqOEQPzZRre2ctc7OC_Ig1o5sO-gm/s320/311.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Wakati Taifa la Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania likiwa tayari limeshaingia ndani ya Mwezi wa Uchaguzi Mkuu bado baadhi ya Waumini wa Dini tofauti Nchini wanaendelea na Dua pamoja na sala za kuliombea Taifa livuke salama katika mchakato mzima wa Uchaguzi huo.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dua Maalum iliyowakutanisha Waumini wa Dini ya Kiislamu chini ya Uratibu wa Taasisi ya Kijamii ya Step up Foundation imefanyika mara tuu baada ya mshuko wa ibada ya Sala ya Ijumaa hapo katika Kiwanja cha kufurahishia Watoto Kariakoo na kushirikisha baadhi ya Watoto Yatima wa Mikoa Mitatu ya Unguja.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Viongozi kadhaa wa Kiserikali pamoja na Taasisi za Kidini walishiriki kwenye Dua hiyo ambapo mgeni mualikwa alikuwa Waziri wa Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa ambae pia ni Mgombea Urais wa Zanzibar kupitia Chama cha Mapinduzi Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akizungumza katika hafla hiyo muhimu kwa hatma ya Taifa Mgombea huyo wa Urais wa Zanzibar kwa Tiketi ya CCM Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi alisema Jamii lazima ijifunze Matatizo mbali mbali yaliyowakumba na yanayoendelea kuwatesa baadhi ya Watu wa Mataifa yaliyoipoteza Amani yao.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Hussein alisema Wananchi wanapaswa kutambua umuhimu wa Amani na Utulivu uliopo Nchini  ambapo wanawajibika kusimama imara katika kuhakikisha Lulu hiyo inaendelea kudumu kabla na baada ya Uchaguzi Mkuu kwa vile maisha ya kawaida bado yataendelea kuwepo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“ Yapo baadhi ya Mataifa ulimwenguni yamepoteza Amani yao kwa sababu ya cheche ya baadhi ya Wanajamii wenzao wenye tamaa binafsi ya Mali na Uongozi na matokeo wamekabiliwa na kazi kubwa ya kuirejesha hali hiyo”. Alisema Dr. Hussein Mwinyi.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akizungumzia  masuala ya malezi ya Watoto Yatima Mgombea huyo wa Urais wa Zanzibar kwa Tiketi ya Chama cha Mapinduzi alitanabahisha kwamba Wazazi na Walezi Nchini bado wana dhima ya kukumbuka jukumu lao la usimamizi wa Malezi ya Watoto waliopoteza Wazazi wao.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Hussein Mwinyi alisema changamoto zinazowakumba Watoto Yatima za kukosa huduma muhimu kama Chakula, Mavazi, Sare za Skuli, unyanyaswaji wa Kijinsia, ukosefu wa Ada za Elimu ya Juu kwa wale watoto waliofaulu kuendelea na masomo yao ya Sekondari pamoja na unyang’anywaji wa Urithi mara nyingi huibuka kutokana na Watoto hao kukosa Malezi ya pamoja.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aliipongeza Taasisi ya Kijamii ya Step Up Foundation iliyotayarisha hafla hiyo iliyowashirikisha Watoto Yatima na kukubali kuwa Mlezi wa Taasisi hiyo ili kushirikiana nayo katika kuhakikisha Watoto hao wanaondokana na changamoto zinazowakabili.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akitoa Shukrani kwa niaba ya Washiriki wa Dua hiyo Maalum ya kuliombea Taifa kuelekea uchaguzi Mkuu wa Amani Mbombea Ubunge wa CCM Jimbo la Kikwajuni Mhandisi Hamad Yussuf Masauni alisema yapo matumaini  makubwa ya mafanikio ya Malezi ya Watoto Yatima kutokana na dalili za ushirikiano uliojitokeza.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mhandisi Masauni alisema uwepo wa Taasisi tofauti zilizojitokeza kuwahudumia Watoto Yatima hasa katika masuala ya sare za Maskuli, huduma za Madrasa, vyakula na hata ushirikishwaji katika michezo mbali mbali ni uthibitisho wa dalili za mafanikio hayo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New serif";">Othman Khamis Ame</span></span></p><p class="yiv4804583926MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

Waumini waendelea kuliombea Taifa

  Wakati Taifa la Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania likiwa tayari limeshaingia ndani ya Mwezi wa Uchaguzi Mkuu bado baadhi ya Waumini wa Dini...

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Webb Fontaine Awarded ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ by Ethiopian Customs Commission

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEDgRfnRAoZxiOmpyM9Yd-ftQWwEg-7xiw2KajXv0jjC5PkVw4KwQVFRff45IvMjXnEzooxf_eSELj64OhvNky58UeGXA8J3Rb5VjcSKWWNT0qOIeO8W2N04AnM7bg8_4HEJYuMUn_oaB/s250/web.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="54" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEDgRfnRAoZxiOmpyM9Yd-ftQWwEg-7xiw2KajXv0jjC5PkVw4KwQVFRff45IvMjXnEzooxf_eSELj64OhvNky58UeGXA8J3Rb5VjcSKWWNT0qOIeO8W2N04AnM7bg8_4HEJYuMUn_oaB/s0/web.png" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://WebbFontaine.com">Webb Fontaine</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> was officially recognised for its support to the Ethiopian Customs Commission (ECC) in its effort of digitalising its border and trade management systems.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Webb Fontaine, the leading provider of solutions for trade facilitation powered by the latest technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, won a tender in 2015 for the implementation of its Customs System as part of a vast reform program initiated by the Ethiopian Customs Commission.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, the system is operational in 27 Customs offices of the country and automates the transit operations across 14 corridors; to date, the system has considerably decreased clearance time and has enhanced transparency and control.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Webb Fontaine’s systems have also contributed to an increase in Government revenue by a minimum of 25% since the phasing out of the legacy system Asycuda two years ago; since then, a total of USD 4.4.b in duties, taxes and associated trade and border fees have been generated through the system.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Following this successful roll out, Webb Fontaine was therefore awarded the prestigious ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ in recognition of its contribution in digitalising the country’s Customs services.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition, the latest achievements associated with the integration of specific system physical distancing features has grandly assisted ECC in fighting against the spread of COVID-19.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The project</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Webb Fontaine’s team of international experts and technicians were on the ground for 3 years in Ethiopia to assist ECC staff with the deployment of Webb Fontaine’s eCMS that was designed and customized for this project and rolled out across all operational ECC stations in Ethiopia. it is also available online for all trade users (carriers, declarants, companies, etc.)</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The fully paperless e-system caters for social distancing rules without hindering the capacity of customs officers to assess and access submitted documents. In addition, ECC removed the need for physical submission of documents by adopting Webb Fontaine’s facevet Officer Desk module, allowing full digitalisation of documents.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Customs administrations of Djibouti and Ethiopia are currently exchanging more than a thousand of transit forms daily, which are directly integrated in their respective Customs system, allowing readily paperless monitoring of transit, both by road and train.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Debele Kabeta Commissioner, Ethiopia Customs Commission commented: “<em>The Ethiopian Digital Customs Management system was designed following a thorough Business Process Analysis, prepared by the Ethiopian Customs Commission (ECC) and the software system was developed by both the ECC project team and Webb Fontaine in order to provide an efficient, predictable and transparent Customs administration, able to generate customer satisfaction, and a perfect balance between Trade facilitation and control over internal and</em> <em>external Trade. I would like to extend my appreciation and gratitude to ECC project staff and Webb Fontaine who developed the software</em>.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Ababu Emeru Project Manager, eCMS Project, commented “<em>First of all, I would like to sincerely congratulate all those who invested their efforts and time in the achievement of this project, especially the project teams (both teams from Webb Fontaine and the Commission), and specifically the National team members for their commitment and dedication, who were able to overcome all challenges and who fought for the success of the project.”</em></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><em style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>“Lastly, I would like to communicate this simple message to all stakeholders involved in the international Trade who are impacted by the system: eCMS is a great system, if we own it we will be able to perceive and understand its value and importance.”</em></div></em><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><em style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>“If we know its value we will surely appreciate it and use it fully. If we use it, we will harvest the expected benefits, which at the end means we will all have achieved our objectives. So let’s own it and optimally use it!</em>”</div></em><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pascal Minvielle Executive Director from Webb Fontaine, said: “<em>This project was a challenging but rewarding experience for Webb Fontaine and the ECC project team and we are proud to have installed our first-class Customs System in the two most populated countries in Africa: Nigeria and Ethiopia. To receive the ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ is a great honour, and the huge investment of the company in terms of resources and know-how has been acknowledged by ECC.</em>”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>“</strong><em>The Ethiopian administration has fully embraced the concept of electronic customs and its role in bringing the country at the fore for competitiveness and trade facilitation in the region</em>.”</div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“<em>This project is of importance to Ethiopia and the country’s aspirations to improve its ability to import, export and trade with other nations. Ethiopia is one of the most populous nations on the continent, with 116 million inhabitants. With half of its population being less than 20 years old, the potential for economic growth in the near future is huge</em>.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“<em>The Ethiopian economy already owns one of the highest growth rates in the world, with its borders handling increasing volumes of transactions, whether import or export. There was, therefore, a need for a system that is powerful enough to control and manage this movement of goods efficiently and with ease.”</em></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“<em>The system was proven to be a great fit, providing the administration with a tool flexible enough to facilitate transactions in an always changing environment while also keeping its robustness and a greater level of control</em>.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The design, introduction and implementation of Webb Fontaine’s eCMS has brought about a wide range of improvements to the way EEC performs daily tasks. Among which:</div></span></span><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cross-border exchange of information to facilitate transit operations with Djibouti</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fully transparent and electronic tracking of transit movements across the country</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advanced risk management techniques</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Automated controls on import and exports</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Electronic manifest processing at the airport</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comprehensive Valuation system</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reporting mechanisms</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Partial release/exit of goods</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Digital submission and verification of documents</span></span></li><li class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">eCustoms processes with no physical interaction between traders and officers</span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv3931676834MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Webb Fontaine.</span></span></i></p></div>

Webb Fontaine Awarded ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ by Ethiopian Customs Commission

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SAP technology makes New KCC 'cream of the crop' in East Africa

<p style="text-align: justify;"><a class="yiv4504399856imgCaptionAnchor" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001p6jPVXuWgGIn8o3AwvTk2jiKwvDaCzWUY1KEe05npfWiqTUc6V8VIcNf8d5dbqECsySbq7rVFIC_XIMc6z-zCkAphRCOhel5R-50tOgVTwhAFKg_GKVV-8GBl3rVzsdtBm9evZa7IhfWyRlQdYb39Ao2h7-ThzIT8gutfdZAItibgQY4La48lekb_pgLRsfL9ww2a7Bdz_pJftDw4qiY8p1M-qDuxfIrECPdkcRv8LIjXkMmoCAYklv_RPZGL0KZ&c=rF5cUoLyXQ0py6S4QSlJCbxH2INY23AzKq06P0doMvLi4KX_fz4PRQ==&ch=Ksz4bug0EcibTEUp94mTjCcVilA78cgQdfy3Jh330ESpog5seCpztA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #196ad4; float: left; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="233" hspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.2033" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.constantcontact.com%2Fd917b230401%2Fbae3bd38-737d-408c-b1f9-a984500981fb.jpg&t=1601549181&ymreqid=55d738a2-f71a-ca11-1c34-060001010800&sig=3S9utl8JAlHcHC3arN46rA--~D" style="text-indent: -9999px;" vspace="5" width="350" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">ith low operational visibility, slow, outdated processes and a vision of growing its footprint, one of Africa's oldest dairy processor & distributor turned to technology to transform its operations and get it in shape for the 21st century digital economy.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) was founded in 1925 and is the largest dairy distributor in East Africa. The company was registered as a state corporation in 2005 and renamed New Kenya Co-operative Creameries Ltd. The company came into international prominence in the late 1930s supplying butter and condensed milk to British troops during World War II and later on in the 1970s after launching a School Milk Program that provided free milk to thousands of school-going children in Kenya and elsewhere on the continent until the mid-1990s.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Mr Samuel Onyango, Head of Communication and Information Technology at New KCC, the company had rebuilt its entire operations on an SAP-supported technology foundation. "Following our company's relaunch as a government-owned company in the 2000s, we chose to put technology at the centre of our strategy. Over the past few years, we have been able to streamline our processes, gain visibility over all our operations, and can now make better decisions than ever before. This has improved our revenue, grown our bottom line and helped us build strong partnerships with a large community of internal and external stakeholders."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">New KCC operates eight dairy processing factories, twelve milk collection centres and several sales outlets spread across Kenya. Onyango says the geographic spread of its facilities played a role in the company's decision to deploy an SAP ERP system. "We urgently needed to strengthen our decision-making processes and increase operational visibility. We opted for SAP due to its strength in processing and manufacturing, and its multi-plant capabilities. We have worked closely with EIM Solutions as our SAP partner over the past few years as we roll out our digital transformation project."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Edward Mwakio, Managing Director at EIM Solutions, several modules have been implemented to date. "We have activated the Finance and Control, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, and Human Capital Management and Payroll modules, working closely with Samuel and his team to ensure the technology delivered direct business value. To date, the results have been outstanding, with streamlined processes, improved supplier management, and greater control and visibility over all aspects of the business."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the key objectives of deploying SAP technology was to improve the management of New KCC's smallholder farmer suppliers. "Our 100 000 smallholder farmers deliver as little as 5 or as much as 100 litres of milk a day," says Onyango. "These farmers and their communities depend on the revenue generated from the dairy they supply, so it was essential that we were able to quickly and accurately process and pay for the produce. Building and maintaining trust with our farmers was a key outcome of our business strategy."</div></span></span><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">For Onyango, this trust would be built on quick and fair payment for milk supplied. "Previously, farmers could wait up to a month for payment - in fact, simply processing the paper-based forms we used to rely on could take weeks. Our SAP platform enables us to pay in near real-time and has helped us build a healthy and growing community of smallholder farmers."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Of the sales and distribution side of the business, Onyango says the company lacked visibility over the status of its sales teams. "We had no insight into the goings-on of our highly mobile salespeople, and had no access to the customers they sold to," says Onyango. "We had to streamline our know-your-customer (KYC) processes and ensure all our customers are registered on a central platform. Now that we have greater insight into who our customers are, we can build far more meaningful relationships with them, which has delivered immense benefits to our business."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the disruption brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mr. Nixon Sigey, Managing Director at New KCC believes the business is in good shape to adapt to the new normal. "We have a strong foundation that can support our operations and management team. Through our SAP technology and other collaboration tools, our teams have been able to continue their work remotely largely undeterred by the disruption of the pandemic."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Future plans include a migration to SAP's flagship S/4HANA with a few ambitious goals. "We are looking at enhancing our transport management, and hope to employ more advanced analytics once we migrate to S/4HANA," says Onyango. "We also want to look at a few major innovations, for example the use of drones to support deliveries. Core to this will be our on-going partnership with EIM Solutions, who have become indispensable members of our own team and have helped us realise our digital transformation ambitions. We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship over the coming years."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director: Central Africa at SAP, says New KCC has paved the way to a bright future with a world-class technology deployment. "New KCC, supported by the expert guidance of its partner EIM Solutions, has achieved what any agribusiness should aspire to: a digital transformation that has improved its decision-making, unlocked greater efficiencies, increased revenue and helped build stronger relationships with the internal and external stakeholders that matter most to the business. As it embarks on further projects to build on this success, New KCC will edge ever closer to becoming a true Intelligent Enterprise that blends technology, processes and experiences to gain a growing competitive edge."</div></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: New;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Distributed by </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001p6jPVXuWgGIn8o3AwvTk2jiKwvDaCzWUY1KEe05npfWiqTUc6V8VIT8SfBVr5trzyuSl9HGV9A3GfM1IJh8C_wLr29xJp_UE_k3uWUTfj3gLR9A0rcE4rLKVfF3_4YcoZtJFtp_ItpXwee7-LEuzBo6XYUceBH4nvc8G5iUH2qrvDuwyYbBBFl8hmKzHbTgV&c=rF5cUoLyXQ0py6S4QSlJCbxH2INY23AzKq06P0doMvLi4KX_fz4PRQ==&ch=Ksz4bug0EcibTEUp94mTjCcVilA78cgQdfy3Jh330ESpog5seCpztA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">African Media Agency (AMA)</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on behalf of SAP Africa.</span></em></div></span></span></div>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAf00PA0Mqawi-_SmXS3HBJdORhyphenhyphenUNnf8Z2n8hJZS7n7aTAsPv9gtuAzOVEjsLHrPstEafWlE3Wvlpyb4-pGBWQDsu5lYk8lGCj3ISkKxDv0Aliqs8A3silLKFmBZaJpLDQc7HLVZnA4xw/s2000/2864+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAf00PA0Mqawi-_SmXS3HBJdORhyphenhyphenUNnf8Z2n8hJZS7n7aTAsPv9gtuAzOVEjsLHrPstEafWlE3Wvlpyb4-pGBWQDsu5lYk8lGCj3ISkKxDv0Aliqs8A3silLKFmBZaJpLDQc7HLVZnA4xw/s320/2864+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alisema kazi kubwa inayoendelea kutekelezwa kwa pamoja kati ya Watendaji wa Tume ya Kitaifa ya Kuratibu na udhibiti Dawa za Kulevya kwa kushirikiana na Vyombo vya Dola imesaidia kupunguza kwa kiasi kikubwa wimbi la uingizwaji wa Dawa za Kulevya Nchini.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alisema hayo wakati alipofanya ziara fupi ya kuwatembelea Watendaji wa Tume ya Kitaifa ya Kuratibu na udhibiti Dawa za Kulevya waliohama kutoka Kidongo Chekundu kutokana na ufinyu wa Ofisi na hivi karibuni kuhamia kwenye Jengo jengine liliopo Migombani Mjini Zanzibar.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema Serikali Kuu iliamua kukaza kamba katika mapambano yake dhidi ya janga la Dawa za Kulevya ambalo ni hatari kwa Afya za Vijana wanaojihusisha na matumizi ya Dawa hizo ambazo matokeo yake hupelekea kupunguza nguvu kazi ya Taifa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif alieleza kwa mujibu wa Sheria  Nambari 9 ya Mwaka 2009 ni kosa kwa mmiliki, mkaazi au msimamizi  wa Nyumba, jengo au mahali popote kuruhusu kutumika katika kutayarisha Dawa za Kulevya kwa ajili ya matumizi au kutengeneza, kuzalisha, kusambaza na kuuza.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar alitahadharisha wazi kwamba wapo baadhi ya Watu katika harakati zao za kimaisha wameamua kujihusisha na biashara ya Dawa za Kulevya bila ya kujali kwamba bidhaa yao inayokwenda kwa watumiaji wa kilevi hicho hatimae huathirika Kiafya na kushindwa kujitegemea kimaisha.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif aliwapongeza Watendaji wa Tume hiyo ya Kitaifa ya Kuratibu na udhibiti Dawa za Kulevya Zanzibar kwa kazi kubwa wanayoifanya licha ya kuzunguukwa na mazingira magumu.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mapema Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Tume ya Kitaifa ya Kuratibu na Udhibiti wa Dawa za Kulevya Zanzibar Bibi Kheriyangu Mgeni Khamis alisema ipo faraja kubwa kwa Watendaji wake kupata Ofisi nyengine kubwa itakayowapa nafasi kubwa ya kufanya Kazi zao kwa ufanisi mkubwa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bibi Kheriyangu alisema licha ya kuhamia kwenye jengo hilo lakini kinachosubiriwa kwa sasa kwa jiengo hilo ni kufanyika kwa marekebisho kwa mujibu wa maelekezo ya Wakala wa Ujenzi chini ya usimamizi wa Wafanyakazi wahandisi Wazalendo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mkurugenzi Mkuu huyo wa Tume ya Kitaifa ya Kuratibu na Udhibiti wa Dawa za Kulevya Zanzibar alimueleza Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar kwamba yapo mafanikio makubwa yaliyopatikana ya udhibiti wa uingizaji, usambazaji na uuzaji wa Dawa za Kulevya hapa Nchini.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bibi Kheriyangu alisema katika kuhakikisha kwamba jukumu hilo linafikia mafanikio ya juu tayari ipo miongozo iliyoandaliwa ya namna ya kuelekeza taratibu za kupiga vita janga hilo thakili lililopoteza nguvu kazi ya Taifa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Othman Khamis Ame</span></span></p><p class="yiv5281778984MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

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HUAWEI now offers safe and contactless digital payment options

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUfu3dlxYqFdKu5_eIH1O2dJ77OrPVWs1S-7X_snbW0sYR991TQTEoU044J1J5zvA8n4gXN1e_Wvsz4ZILdzwIM_mOM0rD-heyTFhKAy6JJm0U_OgY3AGRFin82ce_Q3WIYWaFqAklwOJ/s732/mondia.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="732" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUfu3dlxYqFdKu5_eIH1O2dJ77OrPVWs1S-7X_snbW0sYR991TQTEoU044J1J5zvA8n4gXN1e_Wvsz4ZILdzwIM_mOM0rD-heyTFhKAy6JJm0U_OgY3AGRFin82ce_Q3WIYWaFqAklwOJ/s320/mondia.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="www.Mondia.com"> </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="www.Mondia.com">Huawei,</a> in cooperation with digital payment entity, Mondia Pay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, now offers Direct Carrier Billing service (DCB), for seamless, contactless payments for users in the MEA region through HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS).</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv8338174836MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mondia Pay is a leader in the digital payment space and provides a simple, fast and secure way for consumers to pay for services using their mobile phone. Huawei has been working closely with Mondia Pay, the MEA region’s top digital payments fintech company, as part of its commitment to supporting developers in the MEA region. This strategic partnership will allow for increased DCB coverage and IAP (In-App Purchase) kit capabilities for global developers.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As a result, Huawei and smartphone HONOR users in almost 20 countries including, Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Madagascar, Liberia, and Botswana, will be able to make cashless payments securely without the need for bank cards by downloading the app from Huawei’s Application Store, AppGallery. In addition, Mondia Pay will also market Huawei’s games content in Egypt.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The number of mobile internet subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa has quadrupled since the start of 2010 (World Bank Data) and, for many consumers, it's the only way they can get online. With low credit card penetration rates in most markets, contactless, online payment solutions can reach wider audiences looking to consume digital content.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“This new partnership with Huawei is an endorsement of Mondia Pay’s industry expertise and deep routed knowledge of Africa. Customers across the continent will benefit from our fully integrated digital payment technology to make frictionless payments in a fast, safe and secure manner. We also support the natural progression towards cashless societies, fast-tracked by current affairs such as COVID-19,” said Simon Rahmann, CEO Mondia Pay.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mondia Pay is available on Huawei’s AppGallery as direct carrier billing and e-wallet services to facilitate online consumer payments. Huawei’s AppGallery allows users to explore the best local and global apps.   </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Adam Xiao, Managing Director, HMS and Consumer Cloud Service for Huawei Consumer Business Group MEA, said: “We welcome the opportunity to partner with Mondia Pay to provide our users across the MEA region with even more payment options. Mondia Pay allows for contactless payment without the need for bank cards in a safe and secure manner that protects the privacy of users. This partnership is part of Huawei’s ongoing commitment to make it easier for local and global developers to offer their services to millions more people in the MEA region.”</div></span></span><p></p><p class="yiv8338174836MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Mondia.</span></span></i></p>

HUAWEI now offers safe and contactless digital payment options

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Azam TV completes the migration of its video platform

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwvRDcI8QOZqb2lK0J8YTDOJpYigm-xvn7EORDWIjW7pFicQd4uDiKdnr-uH61VH0Oa2Kb_7fuktlwiPbkfMBl672CtkImg3lQR0IBlqkHQffw2kF5q0RwkUxLMB-19K2Or0JJao6aYr8/s250/eusite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwvRDcI8QOZqb2lK0J8YTDOJpYigm-xvn7EORDWIjW7pFicQd4uDiKdnr-uH61VH0Oa2Kb_7fuktlwiPbkfMBl672CtkImg3lQR0IBlqkHQffw2kF5q0RwkUxLMB-19K2Or0JJao6aYr8/s0/eusite.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Azam TV has completed the migration of its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B to EUTELSAT 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of the existing contract and an incremental capacity commitment.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv6341121096MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: yellow; font-size: x-large;">One of Africa’s leading pay-TV operators, Azam will leverage the enhanced performance of Eutelsat 7 C to distribute some 120 channels in a mix of standard and high definition across its footprint covering Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya and Rwanda</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Commenting on the deal, Patrice Paquot, Deputy Regional Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa of Eutelsat said: <em>“We are honored to continue to partner with Azam, one of our anchor customers at the 7° East position as it successfully expands it broadcast offer. 7° East has become a new DTH hotspot for Sub-Saharan Africa and a key pay-TV neighbourhood for Eastern Africa with some of the fastest growth rates in the region.”</em></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Jacob Joseph, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Azam added: “<em>Every Azam TV household will have the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of local and international programmes with excellent signal quality. We are delighted to rely on Eutelsat to leverage the unparalleled reach of its 7° East position.”</em></div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv6341121096MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Eutelsat.</span></span></i></p></div>

Azam TV completes the migration of its video platform

  Azam TV has completed the migration of its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B to EUTELSAT 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of th...

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